Christmas Crescent Ring - cooking recipe

Ingredients

2 (8 ounce) packages crescent roll dough
1 (7 ounce) container pure almond paste
1/4 cup seedless red raspberry jam or 1/4 cup cherry jam
Glaze
1 cup powdered sugar
1 1/2 tablespoons water
1/4 teaspoon almond extract
sugar dipped cherries and small pear (optional)

Preparation

Preheat oven to 375 degrees F.
Line a heavy large baking sheet with parchment paper and set aside.
Unroll crescent dough; separate along dough perforations into 16 triangles.
Overlap 8 dough triangles on prepared baking sheet, forming a 10-inch-diameter dough disk that looks like the sun with a hole in the middle.
Press edges together to seal the dough \"disk\".
Using a rolling pin, roll out almond paste between 2 sheets of waxed paper into a 9-inch diameter disk.
Place almond disk atop dough disk.
Spread jam over almond paste.
Using remaining 8 dough triangles, arrange second 10-inch diameter dough disk atop jam.
Pinch edges of dough disks to seal; tuck edges under.
Bake for 15-20 minutes, or until golden brown.
Remove from oven and cool for 10 minutes.
While ring is baking, make glaze by stirring powdered sugar, water, and almond extract together in a medium bowl until smooth.
Drizzle half of glaze over warm crescent.
Let glaze set for 10 minutes and then drizzle remaining glaze over.
Decorate with sugar-dipped cherries and small pears, if desired.